Green Tower, Bright Pavilion, Void Platform, Myriad Phenomena Shield, Nine-Layer Foundation, Wind Array, Water Cloud Abode... Ye Muxuan opened each one to get a general idea. After all, some Soul Defense Secret Techniques suited Spirit Readers but not Fighters, while others weren't suitable for Fighters like Ye Muxuan, who followed the Origin Law of Wind.
After comparing them all, Ye Muxuan finally settled on three: Green Tower, Bright Pavilion, and Wind Array.
Green Tower: A Soul Defense Secret Technique with seven layers. It formed a tower from the soul. Successfully forming three layers could withstand Soul Attacks below the Immortal level, while forming all seven could withstand Soul Attacks below the Venerable level. Exchange cost: 1,500,000 points. Primal Secret Realm members received a 30% discount, Primordial Secret Realm members a 20% discount, Heaven and Earth Secret Realm members a 10% discount, and End Times Secret Realm members no discount. You are entitled to a 10% discount.
Bright Pavilion: A Soul Defense Secret Technique with seven layers. It formed a tower from the soul and willpower. The stronger one's willpower, the faster the cultivation and the higher the chance of successfully forming the tower. Forming three layers could withstand Soul Attacks below the Immortal level, while forming all seven could withstand Soul Attacks below the Venerable level. Exchange cost: 1,800,000 points. Primal Secret Realm members received a 30% discount, Primordial Secret Realm members a 20% discount, Heaven and Earth Secret Realm members a 10% discount, and End Times Secret Realm members no discount. You are entitled to a 10% discount.
Wind Array: A Soul Defense Secret Technique with six layers. It arranged the soul into a formation, providing both soul defense and attack. Forming three layers could withstand Soul Attacks below the Immortal level, while forming all six could withstand Soul Attacks below Limit King Level. Exchange cost: 1,500,000 points. Primal Secret Realm members received a 30% discount, Primordial Secret Realm members a 20% discount, Heaven and Earth Secret Realm members a 10% discount, and End Times Secret Realm members no discount. You are entitled to a 10% discount.
Ye Muxuan carefully compared the three Secret Techniques. Unlike Miscellaneous Theories of Clear Shadows, these purely combat-oriented Secret Techniques had to be purchased in full; they couldn't be bought layer by layer. But he was now a member of the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, so he had a 10% discount. Suddenly, he noticed the prompt beneath Bright Pavilion: the stronger one's willpower, the faster the cultivation and the higher the success rate!
After thinking it over, Ye Muxuan's eyes lit up, and he looked at the teleportation destination below.
Now that he was a Core Member, he could earn points as usual by challenging either the Heavenly Bridge or the Illusion Sea. He was leaving Chaos City tomorrow, so he might as well make the most of his remaining time and challenge the Illusion Sea.
Come to think of it, he hadn't returned to the Illusion Sea in over three thousand years, not since he first reached the Fourteenth Layer. He wondered how far he could get if he gave it his all.
In Chaos Ruins, a towering figure over three meters tall stood broad-shouldered and powerfully built. He wore an ancient, dark-red suit of battle armor, and a long, scaled tail extended from behind him. His lake-like eyes reflected the White Phoenix Palace Master, dressed in pure white feathered robes, standing before him.
Their eyes met!
"Junior Sister!"
"Senior Brother Chaos!"
Virtual Universe Company, Primal Region estate.
You Ling, a World Lord-level genius from the Primal Secret Realm, had passed the Eighteenth Layer of the Heavenly Bridge seventy thousand years ago. He was now undergoing life-and-death trials in the Sixth Battlefield of the Outer Battlefield. He had only just escaped with his life from a Monster Race King when he received an email from his friend Ailidi.
A World Lord who had entered the Initial Universe just over three thousand years ago—through an admission quota exchanged for points from the Outer Battlefield—had advanced from the Thirteenth Layer of the Heavenly Bridge to the Eighteenth, and from the Fourteenth Layer of the Illusion Sea to the Nineteenth.
The moment You Ling received the news aboard his spaceship, he froze.
He had entered the core layer of Virtual Universe Company during the Universe-Level Expert Tournament four hundred thousand years ago, joining the Primal Secret Realm. Although he had been eliminated to the Primordial Secret Realm in his first Secret Realm Qualification Battle at Universe Rank, his talent had always been exceptional. He quickly rose against the odds and returned to the Primal Secret Realm in his second Qualification Battle.
Afterward, he was sent out at Domain Lord level. Ten thousand years later, he advanced to World Lord level, and he had remained in the Primal Secret Realm ever since. His talent and rate of progress were no less impressive than Yun Ming's, who had ranked first in the Star Rank Genius Battle ten thousand years ago.
If he remembered correctly, it had taken him about three hundred and thirty thousand years to pass the Eighteenth Layer of the Heavenly Bridge. Among the World Lords in the core layers of the Five Great Powers, that cultivation speed might not be the best, but it was certainly among the top three!
Currently, there wasn't a single World Lord in the Primal Secret Realm who could consistently stay ahead of him in the Heavenly Bridge. One person, like him, had passed the Eighteenth Layer. A few others were at the Seventeenth, most were at the Sixteenth, and several were still at the Fifteenth.
In other words, based on their current Law Comprehension at the Heavenly Bridge, he was a lock for second place and had a shot at first, unless someone was hiding their true strength.
But there was little point in hiding one's strength in a contest like this. After all, another Secret Realm Qualification Battle would take place in a little over two hundred years. As far as he knew, no one in the Primordial Secret Realm had yet reached the Seventeenth Layer, but seven or eight had reached the Sixteenth. The Primal Secret Realm was currently below its full capacity, with only eighty-four members. That meant those seven or eight Primordial Secret Realm World Lords who had reached the Sixteenth Layer could all enter the Primal Secret Realm in the Qualification Battle two hundred years from now. The real competition would be among the World Lords who had passed the Fifteenth Layer of the Heavenly Bridge!
And now a newcomer, a World Lord from the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, had caught up to him after just over three thousand years of cultivation in Chaos City, advancing from the Thirteenth to the Eighteenth Layer. That kind of talent...
Wait! He was a member of the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, and he had passed the Eighteenth Layer!
You Ling suddenly jolted as he realized something!
Virtual Universe, Tongtian Mountain Plane.
There were three World Lord-level Tongtian Mountains here: the Heaven and Earth Tongtian Mountain, the Primordial Tongtian Mountain, and the Primal Tongtian Mountain! Any Core Member of the Five Great Powers could challenge them at any time. The moment someone passed one, they could immediately enter the next, higher-level secret realm.
In other words, if a genius World Lord in the End Times Secret Realm passed all three Tongtian Mountains in succession, he could enter the Primal Secret Realm directly, without undergoing any other assessment!
And now, Ye Muxuan stood at the foot of the Primordial Tongtian Mountain!
He was a World Lord from the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm, so he wasn't qualified to challenge the Heaven and Earth Tongtian Mountain. But he was qualified to challenge the Primordial Tongtian Mountain.
At the foot of the Primordial Tongtian Mountain, Ye Muxuan, clad in black battle armor, appeared out of thin air. The three Gatekeepers, who had been bored out of their minds here, thought their eyes were playing tricks on them!
The burliest of them, a bull-headed man, swayed to his feet. He looked at Ye Muxuan, grinned, and revealed a mouthful of gleaming teeth as sharp as blades and halberds. His voice rumbled as he spoke. "Let me think... So you're His Highness Muxuan, the genius World Lord who joined the Heaven and Earth Secret Realm from the Outer Battlefield. You just passed the Eighteenth Layer of the Heavenly Bridge and the Nineteenth Layer of the Illusion Sea!"
"There's no doubt you'll make it into the Primordial Secret Realm in the Qualification Battle two hundred years from now. But isn't it a little early to challenge the Tongtian Mountain? This is the Tongtian Mountain, after all!"
The Tongtian Mountain: pass any one of them, and you'll reach the heavens!
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